Feedback Not time to be jumping to foregone conclusions
HARD Up and Fed Up
May 12) suggests that Tracy Brabin’s election as the first West Yorkshire Mayor was a foregone conclusion and that a monkey with a red rosette would have romped home.
West Yorkshire is a complex constituency and, even in the old Labour heartlands, the electorate cannot be taken for granted. Look at Wakefield, solidly Labour for years, returned a Conservative to Parliament in 2019.
The legacy of Jo Cox may have helped Tracy Brabin to succeed to the Batley seat, but she should be judged on her record as an MP. With
Letters will not be included unless you include your name, full postal address and daytime telephone number (we prefer to use names of letter writers but you can ask for your name not a considerable reputation for supporting her constituents, Brabin regularly managed to raise issues of local concern in Parliament.
Elsewhere, it is assumed that Batley & Spen is a safe Labour seat. This is not the case. From 1983 to 1997 Elizabeth Peacock, a Yorkshire imitation of Margaret Thatcher, blue two-piece and all, held the seat.
Hard up but pay up?!
HARD Up and Fed Up has clearly been keeping himself/herself busy.
The ‘old boy/girl’ has obviously just had another letter published in
this time on the West Yorkshire Mayor.
In it he/she bemoans another layer of bureaucracy which will have to be paid for by us taxpayers.
I would really appreciate it if Hard Up and Fed Up could explain to us all how and why the post came to be created and tell us all how it, and all its associated duties, are going to be funded.
I would welcome the chance to debate all this with Hard Up and
Fed Up through the and look forward to his/her reply.
Spend money wisely
IT seems that I, together with more than two million others, am about to be disenfranchised unless I spend £75.50 to renew my passport despite having no plans to travel out of the country.
Can anyone explain why this is? Identity fraud at polling stations is next to non-existent.
Are there not better ways of spending the not inconsiderable amount of money that this scheme will cost to implement, such as raising nurses’ pay?
Today (May 12) is International Nurses Day.